Date: 06 May 2003 20:17:33 +0200 From: Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Simple mirror / bootmanager Message-ID: <1052245053.17199.0.camel@cronos.home.vsb>
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Hello guys How can I install the bootmanager to a disk? The disk is ad1 (primary slave) and is only intended to be booted when the first disk is removed (so becoming ad0 at that point). It should be immediately bootable when made primary (e.g. in another machine) What I want to do is this. I have two disk of the same size (give or take a couple of kilobytes), but with a different geometry. Only the first disk is used (contains separate / swap /var /tmp /usr /home /data). What I want to do is use the second disk as a mirror by creating the same slice layout, tarring the contents of the original disk and rsyncing them to the second disk once a day. If my first disk fails, I can simply put the second disk as master or even put it in another machine until the server is rebuilt. I don't want to use software mirroring (with vinum), because of the performance hit and complexity. I can do all of this, but I don't know how to get the bootmanager on it. The system is FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on A PII-333 with two 40 GB disks. Thanks for any help.
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